Fernando Camacho and Enrique Méndez
La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, November 27, 2024, p. 19
To demand that a date be defined to discuss and vote on the reduction of the working day from 48 to 40 hours, lawyer María Luisa Luévano yesterday began a hunger strike outside the Chamber of Deputies, because if she does not have a defined temporality, he warned, there would be a risk that the initiative would be frozen
again.
We need a date to be assigned for the vote on the opinion. The hunger strike is a means of pressure that at least I have to exert and request a voting date
said the litigant in front of the premises, on Emiliano Zapata Street.
Luévano was accompanied by lawyer Susana Prieto Terrazas, who in February resigned from the Morena bench, because that group did not approve the 40 hour week
.
According to the former Morenista, there is a lot of misinformation
about the possible approval of the opinion in the Chamber, because although President Claudia Sheinbaum promised to promote the initiative, she only said that she would do so during his six-year term
and in such a long period, many things can happen
.
The majority parties They have that overwhelming majority with which they change the Constitution in the snap of a finger, but in 2027 there are intermediate votes, and because the reduction of the working day is not approved […]perhaps the people will not give them their trust again and they will no longer have that majority
he warned.
–What is the main obstacle of this reform? –he was asked.
–The refusal of businessmen […] because they have alleged that they would have to increase their workforce by 5, 10 or even 20 percent to produce the same production in 40-hour weeks that they produce with workers in 48 hours.
